Turn 1310
I begin to grow accustomed to the Dungeons. So far I have found little to interest me - the crude armor and weapons that lie here and there have little interest for a student of the arts arcane.

I did find a series of stairways down further into the belly of the Dungeons, and it was on the fourth level that I had a most singular experience - I found a chest in one of the rooms, and on eagerly lifting its lid to examine its contents, a curious gas emerged! Before my eyes, my familiar Piwacket became most unfamiliar indeed, seeming first a Dragon of no known species, then a person, then some other monster whose form was unknown to me! I scarcely trusted myself anymore to remember that this horror might be my cat, and rather leaned on the chest and waited for my eyesight to return to normal. Whilst I waited, I did see a mortal battle betwixt two of these everchanging, dizzying creatures, and was most heartened to see the fearsome victor shrink back to the form of my dear blue-point Piwacket chewing on an unfortunate gecko. I think in future I shall make some attempt to untrap such containers.

At any rate, the chest contained some 30 pieces of gold, a strange scroll, and a magenta book of arcane lore! ...Being as how I am tired after my hallucinating episode and the dungeon’s travails, I shall not right now attempt the book. Which is to say, I don’t think I would understand it, and such an attempt might hurt me. But later, as my power grows, I shall wrest all the magical secrets from the tome and the dungeon hoards!

Turn 1769
Curious! This fourth level of the dungeon seems to have not one stairway down, but two—a feature I might have overlooked had I not been determined to explore each level thoroughly. While one stairway seems to let out upon a dungeon of rooms and corridors similar to the one before, the other gives access to a warren of almost organic caverns, where the occasional din of a hammer gives notice of industrious miners. However, the locals, a race of small and surly Gnomes, seem hostile as well as industrious, and therefore have seen a savage side of both myself and Piwacket. Nothing must stand between me and my quest! Nor between me and knowledge!

Esk-Wiz-Elf-Fem-Cha, St:4 Dx:18 Co:14 In:17 Wi:10 Ch:8, Dlvl:5 $:614 HP:18(18) Pw:55(55) AC:9 Exp:4 T:1775 Hungry, signing off.

P.S. I wonder if Gnomes are tasty.